Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Nov 1999 11:46:22 +0000 (GMT) | From | Tigran Aivazian <> | Subject | Re: 2.3.28 bugs and things to do. |
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Hello,
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Guest section DW wrote: > > 3. Running lilo on some (large) disks results in > > > > ll_rw_block: device 08:00: only 1024-char blocks implemented (4096) > > > > Workaround: use "linear" option in /etc/lilo.conf. > > And this is not involving the loop device? > In normal use of any program, lilo or not, on any disk, large or not, > this should not occur.
This is not involving loop device at all. If you are curious, here is my lilo.conf and fdisk -l output.
boot=/dev/sda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt linear timeout=50 default=2328 append="mem=64M console=ttyS1,9600 console=tty0"
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.3.28 label=2328 read-only root=/dev/sda3
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20smp label=linux initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.12-20smp.img read-only root=/dev/sda3
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20 label=linux-up initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.12-20.img read-only root=/dev/sda3
other=/dev/sda1 label=diag table=/dev/sda
other=/dev/sda4 label=uw213 table=/dev/sda
# fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 522 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 5 40131 12 Compaq diagnostics /dev/sda2 6 18 104422+ 82 Linux swap /dev/sda3 19 337 2562367+ 83 Linux /dev/sda4 * 338 522 1486012+ 63 GNU HURD or SysV
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